Interim Best Practices for Working with Nanoparticles

Abstract

This document was written to provide interim best safety and health practices to students, staff and faculty of the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) who work with nanoparticles. This contain "interim" best practices because the field of nanoparticle health and safety is rapidly evolving at this time; there is much that is not known about the toxicity of nanoparticle and the hazards of respiratory and dermal exposures, and there is no known safe threshold for such exposures to nanoparticles. It is expected that this document will be update periodically.